The quest for great gnocchi — like the search for Sasquatch — is a passion of our lives. And like ol' Sas himself, great gnocchi is hard to find; reports of sightings are many, but mostly unsubstantiated. So it is with great pleasure that we are able to report on a confirmed discovery: The gnocchi of our dreams is served at Pacifica's Ristorante Mare. ...

Amazing what getting in the wrong turning lane will do for you. After a movie at the Century 20 Daly City — about which theater, the less said, the better, but let's just note the presence of a half-dozen cop cars parked at the curb as like, a regular thing — we got into the far left lane and were shunted onto a road that led us past Val's Restaurant & Lounge, on Junipero......

Remember in Labyrinth, when the pre-Skeletor-phase Jennifer Connelly, on the advice of a talking worm, walks through what appears to be a solid wall, but is actually a gap in the maze when she thought she was at a dead end? Finding The Corral Steakhouse, in a previously unimagined secret hidden pocket of Pacifica, was a lot like that (except, sadly, there was no crazy-super-hott David Bowie at the end of this weird journey).......

Here's the thing: We are Breakfast Eaters, and we are drinkers, so the words "champagne brunch," once they enter our brain, tend to stay there, ping-ponging around and popping out anytime the old "what do you want to eat? I don't know, what do YOU want to eat?" conversation starts up (again). We swear, the one at Mandalay Bay is half the reason we go to Vegas so damn much (the other half being,......

Sometimes, what we want is a damn cheeseburger. We want it medium well (too much pinkness grosses us out), we want it on a good bun, and we want it topped with lots o' melty cheddar, healthy tomatoes, crisp red onion, a good glop of mayo, and nothing else. We think Bistro Burger is fine, we adore Burger Joint when we can get it, and we think Perry's makes a splendid one (though their......

We have our habits, and one of them is a powerful hankering for kickass Mexican food. Now, the Bay Area's abundance of taquerias and taco trucks is well-documented, and we have developed real dependencies on a number of them ourselves. But we come here today to talk about a sit-down place with fajitas, combinacion plates, and a full liquor license, a place where rice and refried beans are the default side, a place where......

Beer: We like it. So Half Moon Bay Brewing Company — a waterfront restaurant that brews its own — seemed a great choice for a foggy afternoon on the coast. We had s**t to do that day, so we didn't get to HMB until about three p.m. The anticipated thinness of the post-lunch, pre-dinner-hour crowd didn't pan out; we approached the hostess out on the patio (which was crowded even in the fog, and......

Remember in Goodfellas when Henry Hill's talking about how he and the other gangsters used to take their wives out on Friday nights? They'd go out for a nice dinner, and maybe there'd be a band playing; Saturdays, he continues in VO over a Copa party in full swing, were for the girlfriends — and all that that implies. Well, we can't help you with the go-go Saturday bacchanals, but if you want to......

One recent gorgeous sunny day, craving a micro-vacation and some good food, we abandoned our obligations for the afternoon and headed down the coast to Half Moon Bay's ">Ono Hawaiian Grill. We drove along the rugged coastline, not caring how long or how often we were slowed to a crawl as surfers and families and people with dogs and tourists with cameras pulled off the road at various beach hotspots. With an iPod full......

Every now and then, the coastside beckons SFist, and the city-dweller takes to Highway 1 to see what can be found. Beaches fronting bays full of wet-suited surfers, sheer cliffs, fog-shrouded hills with or without clusters of houses clinging to the craggy edge -- it's mostly gorgeous, but natural beauty appreesh is tiring and requires much quality fuel. But where to go? One shopping strip looks a lot like the next one, and surely......